Posted on November 28, 2009. Filed under: Books, Human Rights | Tags: age discrimination, commissioner appointments, disability, equality, Equality and Human Rights Commission, Human Rights, human rights book review, race, racial discrimination, rights of the child, sex discrimination, women |
New Commissioner appointments have just been announced to Britain’s Equality and Human Rights Commission. It is envisaged that the three-year appointments, announced by Harriet Harman, Minister for Women and Equality, will bolster most considerably the Commission’s ongoing and future work on gender, sex orientation, race, religion and belief, age, disability, and human rights in general, [...]
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Posted on October 4, 2009. Filed under: Human Rights | Tags: book reviews, case studies, Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination Against Women (CEDAW), gender rights, human right book review, Human Rights, human trafficking, poverty, sex discrimination, sex trafficking, slavery, social conditions, Social Justice, women, women's rights |
Human Rights Book Review – ‘Half the Sky : Turning Oppression into Opportunity for Women Worldwide’ Nicholas Kristoff and Sheryl WuDunn From the outset, we here at the HRBR were impressed by the high concentration of quality information presented in this book. Few stones appear left unturned in this work and few of our heartsrings [...]
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